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Georgia Bulldogs basketball
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The Georgia Bulldogs basketball program is the mens college basketball team representing the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Established in 1891, the team has competed in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1932, as of 2014 the Bulldogs have amassed a record of 1334–1237. The school has produced a number of basketball greats, notably Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins. The teams current head coach is Mark Fox, in just his second season, Fox coached the Bulldogs to a 21–11 record, including a 9–7 record in conference play, and their first at-large NCAA Tournament bid since 2002. Georgia was a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Georgia participated in the SIAA from its establishment in 1895 until 1921, in 1921, the Bulldogs, along with 12 other teams, left the SIAA and formed the Southern Conference. In 1932, the Georgia Bulldogs left the Southern Conference to form, coach Rex Enright led Georgia to great success in the old Southern Conference during the 1931 and 1932 seasons. His 1931 team finished with a 23–2 record, the Bulldogs were upset in the Southern Conference tournament semi-finals by Maryland, 26–25. The 1932 team didnt have the record that the 1931 team did. But this team did something that the years team could not do in winning the Southern Conference tournament defeating Mississippi State, Virginia, Duke. Coach Hugh Durham brought Georgia to its first ever post season appearance in 1981 and that team finished with a 19–12 record. They earned an NIT bid and the surrounding the program earned them home games in first defeating Old Dominion. The 1982 Bulldogs were 19–12 were once again NIT bound and this time UGA made it all the way to the NIT Final Four defeating Temple, Maryland, and Virginia Tech before losing a heart breaker to Purdue at Madison Square Garden. These two teams marked the beginning of a post season streak of eight seasons, longest in Georgia basketball history. This string included three NCAA appearances and five NIT bids and this was a remarkable streak of consistency for a program that had never before experienced the post season beyond the SEC tournament. Former NBA star Dominique Wilkins is considered the greatest player in school history, however, Wilkins never played in the NCAA tournament, the Bulldogs made their first NCAA appearance in 1983—which would have been Wilkins senior year had he not opted for the NBA. The 1983 team made it to the Final Four of the NCAA Championship before being eliminated by eventual champion North Carolina State, the latter two victories coming at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY. UGA previously had won the Southeastern Conference tournament in Birmingham, AL defeating Ole Miss, Tennessee, the 1987 Georgia basketball team suffered injury after injury after injury leaving the team with only seven players available

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University of Georgia
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Its primary location is a 762-acre campus adjacent to the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hours drive from the global city of Atlanta. The university has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. The university was founded in 1785 as the United States first state-chartered university and its historic North Campus is on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district. The contiguous campus areas include rolling hills, gardens, and extensive green space including nature walks, fields, shrubbery, and large and varied arboreta. Close to the campus is the universitys 58-acre Health Sciences Campus that also has an extensive landscaped green space, more than 400 trees. The university offers over 140 degree programs in an array of disciplines. Consisting of thirteen separate libraries, the UGA Libraries rank among the nation’s largest and best research libraries containing 5.7 million volumes, the University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries. The university is organized into seventeen schools and colleges, the university has three primary campuses. The largest one is the campus in Athens that has 460 buildings. The university has two campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state, the total acreage of the university in 30 Georgia counties is 41,539 acres. Varsity and intramural student athletics are a part of student life. UGA served as a member of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the varsity sports teams have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the marching band of the university, plays at sports. The Senatus Academicus was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards, the first meeting of the universitys board of trustees was held in Augusta, Georgia on February 13,1786. The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut, Baldwin was a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and one of two Georgia delegates to sign the final document. Many features on the University of Georgia campus resemble the campus of Yale, on July 2,1799, the Senatus Academicus met again in Louisville, Georgia and decided that the time was right to open the university

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Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs

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Georgia Theatre
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Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. Many prominent national and local acts across all genres have performed at the Theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop, the venue is on the Athens Music History Walking Tour sponsored by the Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau. Georgia Theatre opened as a venue in 1978, but spent a few years in the early 1980s operating sporadically as a movie house. It was reopened as a venue in 1989 and has since hosted many of the major touring acts that come through the state. In 1889, the YMCA of Athens brought the property on which Georgia Theatre now stands, starting in 1913, a music store occupied the bottom floor while the YMCA continued to use the second and third floor. In 1926, the Masonic Temple Association of Athens bought the building, in 1935, the Elite Theater opened in the location, building upon and expanding the foundation of YMCA building. After many different uses over the years, in 1977 Sam Smartt, Hap Harris, George Fontaine, the B-52s paid to perform at Georgia Theatre on May 20,1978, and the following year The Police played as part of the bands first U. S. tour. Georgia Theatre briefly closed in 1981 and was reopened a year later by Carafe & Draft Theater as a movie house, kyle Pilgrim and Bill Duck Anderson bought the building in 1989, planning to reopen Georgia Theatre as concert venue. Pylon performed the first show at the new Georgia Theatre, and in subsequent years the venue hosted Widespread Panic, Beck, Warren Zevon, Umphreys McGee, Dave Matthews Band and members of R. E. M. The 2004 album Live at Georgia Theatre by Derek Trucks Band was recorded at the venue, in November 2004, Georgia Theatre was sold to Wilmot Greene and Randy Smith who renovated and restored the building. In 2014, the venue was sold to Agon, who also owns Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, on the morning of June 19,2009, a major fire erupted in Georgia Theatre, causing severe damage to the building and collapsing the roof. The venue underwent renovations in 2010 and 2011 and reopened on August 1,2011, funding for the restoration came in part from ticket sales of a benefit concert hosted by Zac Brown Band and several guest artists at the Fox Theatre in downtown Atlanta. The concert was released as a three-disk album titled Pass the Jar, Zac Brown Band. The fire and history of Georgia Theatre were recorded in a film called Athens Burning. Since reopening, the venue has hosted hundreds of acts including My Morning Jacket, Gregg Allman, Alabama Shakes, Willie Nelson, Basketball Team, and Kenny Chesney

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Stegeman Coliseum
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Stegeman Coliseum is a 10, 523-seat multi-purpose arena in Athens, Georgia, United States. It is home to the University of Georgia Bulldogs basketball and gymnastics teams and it was also the venue of the rhythmic gymnastics and preliminary indoor volleyball matches during the 1996 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1989,1995, and 2008 NCAA gymnastics championships. It replaced Woodruff Hall, a 3, 000-seat field house built in 1923, the ceiling is barrel-shaped, with the Sanford Drive side being curved as well. The resulting inside seating is in a U shape, with the flat end, the Sanford Drive side was decorated with the Olympic insignia and other markings for the 1996 Olympics. Also, the roof is a structure from the coliseum itself. The roof has four outward supports in an arc style, which were used in fraternity initiations until gated off. The university has undertaken several renovations, originally, Stegeman Coliseum had a stage at one end. Today, a scoreboard, a new section for student seating, in anticipation of the 1996 Olympic Games, Stegeman Coliseum received new scoreboard systems, including the first video replay board in an SEC basketball venue. In 2000, all of the old, wooden seats in the level were removed, the concrete was resealed. More recently, new LED ribbon boards have been installed around the ring of the Coliseum. The building has undergone several cosmetic changes to the exterior in the past few years. Currently, the university has plans to undertake a drastic overhaul of the building, including dropping the event level down several feet to increase capacity. In October 2006, a practice facility for mens and womens basketball. The Coliseum underwent a $13 million expansion and renovation after the 2009–10 season, also included were 10,000 square feet of expanded lobby space and 30,000 square feet of renovated concourse, restrooms, and concessions. Renovations began on May 12,2010, and were complete in time for the 2010–11 basketball season. The expansion was dedicated on January 18,2011. Georgia upset arch-rival Georgia Tech in the Coliseums first game on February 22,1964, 81–68, the inaugural game set an attendance record of 13,200 that has never been surpassed. The original design afforded the Coliseum 11,200 seats, but in the excitement of the opening of The Jewel of North Georgia and this would be the first and the last time that this was done

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Hairy Dawg
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Hairy Dawg is the costumed mascot of the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Hairy Dawg made his first appearance at the 1981 Sugar Bowl and has been a mascot of UGA since. Hairy Dawg attends all Georgia Bulldogs football games and most home athletic events, forbes ranks Hairy Dawg No.3 in their list of Americas Top 10 Sports Mascots. The first costumed bulldog at the University of Georgia was an anthropomorphic dog called Fluffie. Fluffie was created in 1975 by the late Coach Mike Castronis, the inspiration for Hairy Dawg came during the 1980 football season at the Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic, when Florida unveiled its new, more intimidating mascot, compared to the rivals mascot, Georgia’s mascot at that time, Fluffie, was described as a dark, dingy gray mutt with zero personality. Tom Sapp, a 1969 Georgia graduate and designer of the mascot explains, hairys name derives from the popular Georgia cheer, Go You Hairy Dogs. Former University head football coach Vince Dooley was the first to be presented with the sketches for Hairy Dawg, UGA student cheerleader, Stan Beecham, was the first to dress out as Hairy Dawg when the Bulldogs went on to beat the Irish and were crowned national champions. Hairy Dawgs first appearance in Sanford Stadium was not until the Georgia Bulldogs 1981 home opener, Hairy Dawg is one of the most recognizable mascots in the country and makes regular appearances in the national media. Forbes ranks Hairy Dawg No.3 in their list of Americas Top 10 Sports Mascots, Hairy Dawg has been selected to participate in the Capital One National Mascot of the Year Challenge in 2003,2004,2007,2009, and 2011. In 2007, Hairy Dawg was a semifinalist in the competition, in 2008, he competed in the Mascot National Championship, finishing 7th place. In 2010, Hairy Dawg appeared in three ESPN commercials, One commercial promoted ESPNs new 3D cable television network, ESPN 3D. The second, for Lee Corsos surprise birthday party on the set of College GameDay, the third, a This is SportsCenter commercial where Hairy Dawg runs through the cupboards of the ESPN kitchen until he finally finds some animal crackers. In 2011, Hairy Dawg appeared in a number of Capital One National Mascot Challenge commercials, in 2012, Hairy Dawg appeared in two This is SportsCenter commercials with former UGA quarterback Matthew Stafford. Hairy Dawg was joined by a bulldog mascot named Spike in 1998. Intended as a mascot to serve at Georgia volleyball games, Spike also appears at mens and womens basketball games and Gym Dogs womens gymnastics meets

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Uga (mascot)
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Uga is the official live mascot of the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Since 1956, all the serving as Uga have been part of a lineage of English Bulldogs owned by Sonny Seiler. The Uga mascot line started in 1956 when Seiler brought a bulldog that was given to him as a present by Frank Heard to Georgias first home game of the season. Since then, every Uga has been owned by and lived with the Seiler family in Savannah, the red jersey is Ugas typical uniform, though he wears a green jersey on St. Patricks Day. Ugas jersey is made from the fabric as the players official game jerseys. He has an air conditioned dog house at Sanford Stadium and typically sits on or near bags of ice at games. To date,10 dogs have carried the name Uga, which is derived from an abbreviation for the University of Georgia, each has been descended from the original Uga, and has frequently been the son of the predecessor. Deceased Ugas are interred in a mausoleum near the entrance at the southwest corner of Sanford Stadium. A bronze plaque describing each dogs tenure and including an epitaph is engraved in front of each tomb, the tombs original location was at the east end of Sanford Stadium, and Ugas I and II were originally buried there. Prior to its 1981 enclosure, the University moved the Uga graves to the west end, when the west endzone was enclosed in 1992, the Ugas were entombed in their current resting place, and a bronze, life-sized statue representing Uga was placed in front of the mausoleum. Several Ugas have retired as part of ceremonies, during which there is a passing of the collar. During these ceremonies, the fans typically chant Damn good dog, the costumed character representing the University of Georgia is named Hairy Dawg and, while also a bulldog, should not be confused with the Ugas. Uga I – Started the Uga mascot line, was a grandson of a bulldog that accompanied the Georgia football team to its Rose Bowl victory. Won one Southeastern Conference football title, Sanford Stadium Epitaph, Damn Good Dog Uga II – Won two SEC football titles and one national title. Epitaph, Not Bad for a Dog Uga III – Won two SEC titles and one national title. Epitaph, How Bout This Dawg Uga IV – Won two SEC championships and he was the first live mascot ever invited to a Heisman trophy presentation in 1982, and accompanied Herschel Walker to the Downtown Athletic Club wearing a custom-made tuxedo. He portrayed his father, Uga IV, in the motion picture Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, in 1996, he famously lunged at Auburn wide receiver Robert Baker after he scored a touchdown. The pictures and video of this incident have been circulated as a symbol of the Deep Souths Oldest Rivalry